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Did you know that there was
a relationship between dollars
Well it must be true anyway
Did you ever notice that once
a man gets a few dollars others
seem to fly into his pocket as
if by magic Most of the dol
lars of the United States are
gathered together in large
amounts The more dollars a
man gets the faster others join
them You may be unable to
account for this but it is true
nevertheless Dollars like to
congregate Why not start a
congregation of your own
Lets explain You make quite
a bit of money dont you You
spend it dont you Well now
just for once try putting a few
dollars just a few in this
bank See if others dont fol
low The first few act as a
decoy You are cordially in
vited to place your decoys
In this bank We are sure that
by using one of our bank books
for a blind you will be able
to bag considerable
The First
National Bank
of McCook Neb
By F M KIA1MELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow G
Entered at postoffice McCook Nebraska a
second class matter Published weekly
Bishop Bonacum of the Catholic
See of Lincoln died on Saturday last
He has been bishop of this diocese
for the past 20 years being the first
in the line and withal a notable
churchman
The recent destruction of the state
capital building of Missouri reminds
the Omaha Bee that Nebraska is not
better situated than Missouri was in
the matter of fire proof buildings for
its state records etc
Luke Lee Tennessees new Unit
ed States senator is only 32 years
old Is a Prohibitionist wealthy and
of an old and aristocratic Tennessee
family and is a newspaper publisher
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A Holdrege news item states that
Nebraska Telephone Co officials wer
in that city last week figuring on
placing the companys wires in that
city under ground on the principal
business streets of that city
State Treasurer George will not is
sue a monthly statement hereafter
showing the whereabouts and amount
of state money in state depositories
The next statement will be forth
coming April 1st and thereafter state
ments will be made public on each
recurring quarter
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The news report that the Harriman
lines have completed arrangements
for the expenditure of 75000000 in
extensions and betterments promises
the revival of demand for railroad sup
plies and equipments ird is a har
Jiiuxer o1 renewed activity Ccminfc
as it des before the rate decisions
it also carries its own comment on
the recent railroad doctrine that if
they could not get advanced rates
they would have to sit down and let
their properties go to wreck to spite
the public Pittsburg Dispatch
The American people are not as
trustworthy as they might be as
they ought to be as their opportun
ities could make them but they are
the most reliable article we -have
and they will have to be as long as
we remain a government by the Jpeo
ple When the time comes that they
cannot be relied upon as well as som
trust magnate or other plutocratic
grafter then we are in line for a
king or an emperor whom we can
hold responsible to the extent of
his head
The financial stability of the govern
ment naturally means more to those
who have come to America from the
European countries where the gov
ernment stands for about everything
stable In finance religion etc The
first month of the postal savings
banks in operation shows that the
argument advanced favoring the pos
tal banks on the score that the for
eign element in our country would
use them in which to deposit their
money rather than send it across the
ocean has been eminently sustained
in fact A large majority of the
January deporistors were foreign born
residents
BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES disease with Pure Blood
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A Story of How a Small Boy Tries
to Imitate Lincoln
By CLARISSA MACKIE
7 Copyright by American Press
atlon 1911
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Little Azariah Ichabod Peters sat on
the topmost rail of the fence and look
ed thoughtfully down at the shiny new
rubber boots that incased his fat legs
A warm overcoat was buttoned tight
ly about his form and on his black
woolly head was drawn a bright red
toboggan cap that matched his red
mittens
I reckon Is mighty lucky he
mused Jes tink dat ole Sandy Claws
a bringin me all dese yere spandy
new does wen my ole ones wasnt all
wore out yit Now dat no count
Caesar Woodson he say its jes be
cause my pappy has a butler job at
de hall an gits a sight ob munny fer
standin behin Marse Clements cbar
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HANDED IT THItOTJGH THE BABBED WIN
DOW
dat I kin hev all dese tings but I likes
to tink dat yere ole Sandy Claws
brung some ob em O Lawdy me
I done fergot Marse Abe Linkum an
how granny ses if he hadnt set grand
pap free my pappy couldnt hev a but
tler job an git a sight of munny I
dunno
Whah yo ben 111 Azariah said
his old granny I guess yo toeses is
mos froze off come close to de flah
an warm up
Azariah Ichabod sat down on a stool
near the stove and slowly removed
his outer garments Granny he hes
itated did ole Marse Sandy Claws
bring dese does to me or did Marse
be Linkum
Marse Linkum Granny stared
over her spectacles Dat good man
been dead an berried dis fifty year
How come It yo got dem mixed up
less now I IT Azariah I guess yore
recollectin whut granny said to yo
bout how if Marse Linkum hadnBset
de slaves free mebbe yore pappy
wouldnt be wurkin up to de hall an
earnin sights ob munny fer us
I wish yod tell me all bout dat
yere Marse Abe Linkum agin gran
ny said Azariah
Both Granny Peters and Azariah
Ichabod were in tears at the conclu
sion of her recital and when1 granny
had brought forth the brown covered
Life of Abraham Lincoln the old
woman and the little boy pored over
its crude woodcuts and large type with
complete forgetfulness of the burning
potatoes in the oven
Yore pappy larned his letters In dat
yere book said granny proudly and
yo recomember dat he larned yo
yores too Now doan you never for
git lir Azariah dat yo larned yo fust
readln in Marse Abe Linkums book
Sposln yo read a lil about him
now coaxed granny thrusting the
book into his hands She lighted a
kerosene lamp and fished the charred
potatoes out of the oven with philo
sophic cheerfulness and thrust In an
other batch Begin now honey
Azariah Ichabod opened the book at
the first chapter and ran a small black
finger along the lines reciting glibly
what he had already learned by heart
under the tuition of his father
Marse Abe Linkum wuz bon on
Febry twelve in de yeah whats de
matter granny Azariah paused as
Mrs Peters grasped the book from his
hand
LIT Azariah cried his grandmoth
er excitedly I done forgot whut yore
pappy said dis mornin He come
down from de hall wld er newspaper
from de noth whut hed found an
ses he Termorrer will be Marse
Abe Linkums birthday an deys
gwine ter celybrate it up noth Its
all in dis yere paper Now do yo tell
Azariah ter git some er dat creepin
stuff from de woods an hang ober
Marse Linkums plctur I declar I
done fergot all about It an yore pap
pyll be mighty struck if yo doan do
it
Ill git it in de mornin Dat Marse
Linkum mus have been drefile good
ter make folks member his birthday
I wish I was like dat man granny
I reckon Id do les as he did assert
in dere way said granny wisely
I couldnt set nobuddy free
Yaas yo could set somebody free
said granny suddenly Whahs dat
lil rabbit yo found in yo trap yistid
dy
Azariah rolled a startled eye at his
grandmother Its locked up in de
woodshed I reckon dat yere lil rabbit
likes me mon he does to run aroun de
col woodses granny I want ter keep
him I do
Go long Azariah Peters Is sham
ed ob yo 1 declare I am wid dat sam
ple ob Marse Abe Linkum right befo
yo all de time Doan yo talk to me
Tomorrer Ill let him go free Den
Ill be some like Marse Linkum 1
reckon Ill give bim some cabbidge
now and Azariah left the table and
went to his little captive while granny
hobbled around the room singing in a
high cracked voice
The next day Azariahs first duty
was to go to the adjacent woods and
search under the covering of dead
leaves for trailing vines of sassafras
and old mans hand with which to
adorn the large picture of Abraham
Lincoln which hung on the kitchen
wall
After that he took the little gray rab
bit from the woodshed and stumped
doggedly across the winding path to
the upland pasture He could feel the
beating of the little frightened heart
against his band and he snuggled the
little furry body closer into his neck
Doan yo be fraid lil rabbit Is
gwine ter take yo straight ter yore
mammy he comforted it Then at
the pasture fence he kissed the trem
bling animal and set it on the ground
For an instant It crouched frightened
and tense and then with a bound it
left him and disappeared in the hedge
Lawdy sakes ejaculated the round
eyed Azariah I didnt reckon it
made folkses so glad to git away I
wished I could be moah like Marse
Linkum an set moah folkses free
He walked meditatively back to the
cabin and peered through the palling
Into the chicken yard I reckon yo
chickens would be mighty glad to git
away But I doan know whut gran
nyd tnk erbout dat
All the afternoon little Azariah pon
dered over the story of Abraham Lin
coln and the lesson taught by his no
ble life Toward night he went the
lonely two miles into Collinsville to
replenish the molasses jug As he was
leaving the town on his way home he
came across that scapegrace Caesar
Woodson and wonder of wonders
that marvel of hardness and abandon
ed wickedness was bawling lustily in
the back yard of his fathers isolated
cabin
Mah pappy hes gone ter jail he
wept noisily in response to Azariahs
solicitous Inquiry Kunnel Fenn he
tole de constable dat dere wuz only
five chickens lef in his roos an he
said pappy hed sold em ober ter de
town folkses An all becuz de kunnel
could only find five chickens in his
roos dey locked my pappy up
Henry Woodsons reputation as a
connoisseur of fine poultry was too
well known in the county for Azariah
Ichabod Peters to express much sur
prise or Indignation over that colored
gentlemans incarceration in the lock
up Nevertheless as he left his play
mate and went his homeward way his
little heart was filled with pity for the
genial Mr Woodson who was confined
within four walls away from the sun
shine and the crisp February air and
corn pone and sweet potatoes Aza
riah wondered what Mr Abraham
Lincoln would have done in like cir
cumstances and he finally concluded
that Mr Lincoln would have made
every effort to obtain the freedom of
Henry Woodson and restore him to
the bosom of his family
Azariah hid his molasses jug in the
hedge and turning his shiny rubber
boots toward the town he had just
left he trotted swiftly back turning
and twisting until he reached the
small isolated brick building that
served as a temporary place of con
finement for the evildoers of the vicin
ity The little boy crept up under the
small barred window and in the fall
ing darkness his form became part of
the shadows
HI Mr Woodson he hissed anx
iously
There was a shuffling step across the
floor and Henrys rich voice came in
a hushing whisper Whos dere Is
dat yo Caesar yo lim ob Satan
It aint Caesar It are somebuddy
like Marse Abe Linkum come to set
yo free whispered Azariah Jes
yo tell me how an I kin do it
Lawsy me ejaculated Mr Wood
son Lemme see I reckon I oughter
know dis yere ole lockup like a like
a coop He he Whoever yo be do
yo know whan my house is
Yaas
Well yo run erlong an bring me
er crowbar outer my shed Put yo
han inside de do an its in de corner
Fetch it heah
Azariah went and without adventure
he returned with the desired imple
ment and at Henrys direction he
handed it through the barred window
That gentleman grabbed it hastily
Im mighty obleeged to you an I
better not guess who yo are but yore
shore a mighty little feller Now yo
better run erlong befo de guard comes
back from hes supper Nobuddy 11
know twas yo dat helped me out
erway an I shall git to Richmond as
fas as I kin till de smell ob chicken
hes gone from de Runnels nostrils
he he he chuckled gleefully
Goodby whispered Azariah Icha
bod Peters I spect yore mighty hap
py to be free
Glory chile dat I am said the
grateful Mr Woodson Now yo run
erlong home lil Azariah Ichabod
ed Azariah warmly as he drew up to ters Abraham Lincoln Im gwine ter
the table prepared by his grandmotb 1 be free
er I Azariah scampered away and re-
LiT boys kin do jes as much good claimed his molasses jug and as he
J trudged the weary lonely two miles
homeward every step of his soft rub
ber boors seemed to emphasize Henry3
words in his happy heart
Lil Azariah Ichabod Peters Abrn
lam Lincoln
COLOR BLINDNESS
The Incident 1 hat Opened John Dal
tons Eyes to His Affliction
John Dalton the famous English
chemist and natural philosopher with
out whose discovery of the laws of
chemical combination chemistry as an
exact science could hardly exist was
wholly color blind His knowledge of
the fact came about by a happening of
the sort which we call chance On his
mothers birthday when he was a man
of twenty six he took her a pair of
stockings which he had seen in a shop
window labeled Silk the newest
fashion
Thee has bought me a pair of grand
hose John said the mother but
what made thee fancy such a bright
color Why I can never show myself
at meeting in them
John was much disconcerted but he
told her that he considered the stock
ings to be of a very proper go to
meeting color as they were a dark
bluish drab
Why theyre as red as a cherry
John was her astonished reply
Neither he nor his brother Jonathan
could see anything but drab In the
stockings and they rested In the belief
that the good wifes eyes were out of
order until she having consulted vari
ous neighbors returned with the ver
dict Varra fine stuff but uncommon
scarlety
The consequence was that John Dal
ton became the first to direct the at
tention of the scientific world to the
subject of color blindness
THE DRINK CALLED COFFEE
Here Is the Way They Made It In the
Seventeenth Century
There are in existence in Great
Britain a few copies of an ancient
cookbook published in 1G62 that gives
what Is perhaps the first English rec
ipe for coffee The recipe reads
To make the drink that Is now
much used called coffee
The coffee berries are to be bought
at any Druggist about seven shillings
the pound Take what quantity you
please and over a charcoal fire in an
old frying pan keep them always stir
ring until they be quite black and
when you crack one with your teeth
that it is black within as It is without
yet if you exceed then do you waste
the Oyl and if less then will it not de
liver its Oyl and if you should con
tinue fire till It be white it will then
make no coffee but only give you its
salt Beat and force through a lawn
sieve
Take clear water and boll one third
of it away and it is fit for use Take
one quart of this prepared water put
In it one ounce of your prepared cof
fee and boil it gently one hour and it
is fit for your use drink one quarter
of a pint as hot as you can sip it It
doth abate the fury and sharpness of
the Acrimony which is the gender of
the Diseases called Cronical
Beat the Banks System
The boy entered the Cleveland bank
and laid a half dollar with his bank
book on the receiving tellers window
We dont receive deposits of less than
a dollar said the teller The boy
yielded reluctantly to the system and
drew bade But he did not leave the
bank He crossed the corridor and
seated himself on a settee The teller
noticed him sitting there and also no
ticed the reflective look on his face
The boy waited for some time think
ing it over Finally he arose and went
to the paying tellers window A mo
ment later he confronted the receiving
teller I want to deposit this dollar
and a half he said The teller
grinned The boy had just drawn a
dollar from his little balance and was
using it as an entering wedge for the
rejected half dollar And so the sys
tem was beaten by the boy and a con
siderable accession of bookkeeping la
bor was the price of defeat Cleveland
Plain Dealer
History Made Palatable
Joseph Salvador the French histo
rian and Jules Sandeau a novelist
made their meeting at a public recep
tion the occasion for a dispute as to
the respective places which they occu
pied in the world of letters
The reading of history is like a pill
it needs the sugar coating to make it
palatable argued the novelist
Ah but it is the ingredient which
cures not the coating remarked the
historian
Then let us divide honors said
Sandeau for if it were not for my
sugar coating your historical facts
would dry on the shelves
Tolstoys Intensity
Everything in Tolstoys character
says a Russian writer attains titanic
proportions As a drinker he absorbed
fantastic quantities of liquor As a
gambler he terrified his partners by
the boldness of his play As a soldier
he advanced gayly to bastion four the
bastion of death at Sevastopol and
there he made dying men laugh at his
witty sayings Ho surpassed every
one by his prodigious activity in sport
as well as in literature
Agriculture
No other human occupation opens so
wide a field for the profitable and
agreeable combination of labor with
cultivated thought as agriculture Ere
long the most valuable of all arts will
be the art of deriving a comfortable
subsistence from the smallest area of
land Abraham Lincoln
A Strike
Why dont you go to the dance to
night Harold Havent you any
flame
Yes dad said the Harvard stu
dent o flame but no fuel Life
A grateful dog te better than an uu
grateful mais Saudi
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- A Galusha and son Adair of this
3 city have purchased the clothing
3 business of the Drebert Clothing
company of McCook and are now t
3 in possession of the store They
are both experienced clothing men
the senior Galusha having been in
3 the clothing business at Red Cloud
3 for twenty years For the past
six years Adair has ably filled a
responsible position in the office of
3 the secretary of state and he has a
host of friends and acquaintances
a in Lincoln who regret that he will
3 leave this city but the knowledge
that he will engage in business for
himself gives considerable
tion to his friends here A
3 sha was formerly secretary of
state but for the past few years
3 has been traveling out of this city
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School Board Meeting
McCook Nebr February 6 1911
Board met in regular session in
the superintendents office Presen
Doan Barnett Barnes Lawritson
Suess Absent Culbertson The
minutes of January 2 1911 were read
and approved The following bills
were read
Jennings Hughes Co
plumbing 14 35
Middleton Ruby plumbing 8 20
Jennings Hughes Co
plumbing and hydrant G 50
L W McConnell drugs etc 38 85
H P Sutton repairing clocks 7 75
Osborn Kummer Co dray 11 35
F M Kimmell paper 2 00
J E Ludwick furniture 31 19
McCook Machinery Iron
Works work 2 00
Mrs Howe Smith laundry 3 40
Howe Smith setting glass 5 50
Chivers Book Binding Co
books 21 35
D B Berry books 5 26
Ginn Co books 24 41
N A Bengston set of Nebr
rocks 5 00
Silver Burdett Co books 10 80
Hammond Stephens Co di
plomas 40 65
Nebr School Supply House
books 3147
Mrs W H Rankin laundry 4 55
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On motion the above bills were al
lowed The superintendent reports
attendance at first semester Total
enrollment 965 Average attendance
891 Supt Taylor endorsed Miss Eth
el Bone of Denver Colo at 6000
per month as a teacher in the schools
here On motion Miss Bone was elect
ed at the salary of 6000 per monht
A hearing was had of the lack of
harmony between Miss Jones and the
principal in the East building Evi
dence was submitted and a steno
graphic report taken by the clerk in
the superintendents office which is
to be transcribed and filed tpon
the evidence a motion was made by
Mr Barnett that we discharge Miss
Agnes Jones as a teacher in the Mc
Cook public schools and the vote be
taken by calling the roll Seconded by
Suess Roll call Doan yes Law
ritson no Barnett yes Suess yes
Barnes no Negative votes given on
account of fear in lack of legal
grounds Yes 3 no 2 On motion
board adjourned
C W BARNES Secretary
Miss Agnes Jones has been trans
ferred to the third grade west M iss
Ella Caffrey to the third grade east
and Miss Ethel Bone to the fifth
grade east
The second issue of the High
School Megaphone is out
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